Holder eob newspapers



Dec. 21 .1926. 1,611,231

L. G. RATTERMAN HOLDER FOR NEWSPAPERS; MENUS, AND THE LIKE Fild June 4. 1925 'ATTHNEX' Y Y Patented De@ 2L I' stares initier ironischY RATTERMAN, or sr. rlini.,.Mi-'iiiinsoTA.Y

nomina roitivnvvsrarniis, Manns, Alivnriin Linn.

Application led .Tune 4,

two sectionshinged together. j Y forni *of my device.

, Referring `to thel dra ly of Aiwire and comprisesia horizontal part part is simplyajwire loop A from whichv extends in a. common plane two parallel arms B.V Said arms B VVare bent upwardly at a 25 predetermined distance from fthe loop A, as at @forming Atwo upright arms- D' preferably in a common plane and inclined toward i' each other,`thence bent downwardly and` centrally as yE to two horizontally spaced vbends F adapted to normallyV contact'with the surface S von which the loop Al rests. Tlience the wire is extended upwardly to form an upright central finger G closed and terminating as at H. The upright `partofmy device may thus be considered asf'comprising` three upwardly directed ,lingers (see` Fig. 4) all made cfa-single piece of wire and integral with theparallel arms B.-

In Figs. l Vand 4 the entire device is made yof avsingle piece of wire there being,in Fig.A 1,-an opening in the loop A between the holder members just'described. In all forms of the device a common dinner plate or'other similartableware J is placed so as to rest v on loop A orY engage it in such a waylas to hold it down. Before meal times, in restau# rants and like places, a menu (not shown)V 50 may be placed inrthe'holder andon other occasions when'a person wishes to read ,-a

newspaper K or other printed matter while eatinghe simply places'the paper or other.

Fig. l 'isja perspective view of` my device Fig. Ll is a .frontperspective of a modifiedVV A 7 ing-by *reference` letters, my device is preferably madel entire.

and an upright part, the latter;constitut-r ing thel holding' device.V The horizontal.

arms B and the wire of saidv loop A Vis made forming also the arms B .and the 1925,` serial Na as/asse.,

downwardly in' front of the "two upright fingers D-E with,Y the central finger .Gen-

fgaging the front surface of the paper (sec ist @WE-st `reading `matter theV standbyfslippingit A Figi) theY three arms beinghvsprung accord- 'v ing tothe'thicliness of the paper-*inserted vand fri'ctionally ,holding itso that a person eating ,food 'Off-vof plate .l 'may read the pa-k pel' VWhileeating. r f,

s InFigs. 2 and Btwo pieces of wire are V.used in making the device, A vbeing acomplete wire loop and having two spacedin 1 tegral eyelets A adapted to be hingedlyfen- 'gaged by similar eyelets B" on the forward ends ofthe arms VThe latter arms (B) andthe upright fingerV members are made of a singlepiece ofwire andv may beA folded 'over thejloop A, as indicatedin'dotted lines'in for'shipping pur Fig; 8, when not'li-n use *or poses.

InFigfc the 'l entire device vcomprises a. single piece of wire', the loop A beginning with an eyelet A thence bent in a circle and downwardly to lform the three l arms de'- lscribed and then forwardly-.from C'to-the loop, vA about rwhich kthe other end of vtheV wireis looped at B. Y t will Vbe readily seen that iny all cases the upright wire lingers form aV rack which acts as a paper clip, on.

a large Vscale`,'to frictionally engage'and hold a newspaper, menu7 price tag-or anyr other reading matter. .f

the wire 4passed through said eyelet thence straight'baclr as to C and upwardly andv L l' It .isy .obvious that in either the rigidvor".

folding type of my device the wire may be bent Vand'assembled in various waysand in the casev of using aV complete loop as A in` F ig. 2 the 'wire ends` may be spot welded,v f soldered or otherwise made integral as at M in Figs. l and 2.` v l y VVVhatI claim is:

1.- In a holder of thel'class 'described,a

skeleton frame comprising a flat section of approximately'circular form and adapted 7 to lie'on ahorizo'ntal surface .and be retained thereon', an upright section connected with said flat section and in spaced relation there` to horizontally and comprising` inpart number of upwardly directed fingers adapted to frictionally retain fiat objects in upright positionvand in spaced relation to the` flat section, andvpivots connecting 'said'two p' sections to make the upright section foldable upon the flat section.

ilThe structure specified in claim l in which zi part of said upright section conlprises two parallel arms, the 'mainparn of the 'let Section comprising a wire loop adaptecl to Vlle on a table :md be retzunecl YthereonV by au artifjle o tableware. y ,n Y

The structure spellied in claim l in which e part'of vsaid upright sect-ion eom- 10 prises two parallel arms, the manpart o the flat sectlon comprlsmg .a Wlre loop adapted-t0 lle on L c2-ble end-be rei-mined thereon by an article of tableware, said two parallel arms and the Wlre loop adapted 5o l5 be normally disposed n a eommonrplene,

Insteslimony whereof l affix my signature.Y

' LGUVS RATTERMAN; Y 

